Linens, Muslins and Sheetings
Tremendous bargain
and yards of fino linens go
S-4 rattern Cloths, pura linen,
worth 2.60, at 1 ft C
each 10J
10-4 PattPrn Cloths, pure linpn,
worth $4.00, at Z P
each tj3
12-4 Pattern Cloths, pure linen,
worth 15.50, at "Z PQ
each J.DJ
8-12 Hemstitched Cloths, un
bleached, pure linen, worth
13.00. at A
each ......... 1 "
Napkins to match, 22-lnch size,
pure linen, worth f QQ
$3.00, at dozen. ... .JKj
60 and 64-lnch Irish Linen
worth 60c per yard, Q
at yard J
68 and 72-lnch Satin Damask,
worth $1.25 per QO
yard, at yard OJK
opportunities in our January Linen Sale. Many thous
nt unequalel low prices.
64 and 68-lnch Bleached Linen,
worth $1.00 per AQ
yard, at yard DJG
Mercerized Table Linen, worth
75c per yard, at
yard JJG
Huck Towels worth 12V4c, 15o
' and 19c only six pairs to a
customer to close 10
at each IUC
Bleached and Unbleached Turk
ish Towels, worth 12Mi( 15c
and 19c (six to a t(
customer), at each.. IUC
Bleached Muslin, full 36 inches
wide, soft finish, worth 8MiC
(15 yards to cus- C
tomer), at yard JC
Bleached Cambric, full width,
extra heavy, worth ftl
12V4C, at yard O3C
9-4 Unbleached Sheeting, full
width, extra heavy, worth
25c per yard (only 10 yards
to customer), at
per yard I fC
9-4 Bleached Sheeting, full
width, extra neavy, worth
30c per yard (only 10 yards
to customer), at lQ
per yard VJG
81x90-Inch Bleached
seamless, worth 60c,
at
81x90-inch Bleached
seamless, worth 60c,
at
81x90-inch Bleached
seamless, worth 85c,
at
42 and 4 3-Inch Pillow
worth 16c, at
each
Sheets,
49c
Sheets,
59c
Sheets,
69c
Cases,
10c
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Big Bargains Monday
Invoicing ia finished; new goods are arriving daily, and
stocks must be cleaned up at once. Keal value has not been con
sidered in pricing these specials.
Insertlngs and Edges In great assort
ment of pretty patterns, in three
lots at, yard, 5c, 2 c
and C
$1.00 All-Over Embroid
eries at yard ,
$1.50 All-Over Embroid
eries at yard
39c
75c
6-lnch Embroideries and 3-inch n
sertlnss go in this sale at
yard 10c and I 2C
10 and 12-inch Embroideries, with
wide Insertlngs great
bargain at yard lzG
Corset Cover Embroideries worth
from 25c to 60c per yard f P
at yard IJC
Great January Clearance Sale of Silks
To clean up before our spring silks
rifieing of prices ever offered.
Beautiful Novelty Silks, in checks, dots, plaids,
stripes and several designs in small figures
our 85c and $1.00 Silks Monday CQ
at yard JJK
Any of our $1.25 and $1.50 Plaids and OQ
Fancy Silks in this Bale at JOG
Changeable Messallnes and Peau de Cygnes,
Plain Thais and Loulslnes our ? C
$1.00 grade at yard JC
To close our 69c and 85c color Crepe AQ
de Chines, at yard TC
Color 27-lnch Taffeta, 20 good colors to select
from very special at C Cn
yard J JC
Our 19-inch color Taffeta Monday
at
49c
arrive. Monday's sale the greatest sao-
The greatest yet is Monday's sale of Black
Silks
Our $1.60 36-lnch Black Taffeta at OQ
yard
Our $1.75 36-inch Blnck Taffeta at 110
yard I.IU
Our $2.25 36-inch Black Taffeta at f
yard V.O J
Our $1.25 36-inch Black Taffeta at O P
yard OJG
Our $1.00 27-inch Black Taffeta at n C
yard i OG
Our $1.25 27-Inch Black Taffeta at ftO
yard OJG
Our $1.76 27-lnch double-faced Peau C
de Solo at yard Is a J
Our $1.60 36-lnch single-faced Peao OP.
de Sole at yard ,JOG
A limit of 15 yards to a customer.
The Leading Dress Goods
House of the West
finning out nil odds and ends of Winter Dress Goods
at a trifle of their cost.
100 pieces of Priestley's Black and Lupin's Black Dress
Ooods-the best makes In the world range In price
from $1.00 to $4.98 yard Monday only at CQ
a yard DJC
C'OLOIIKD DKESS GOODS.
100 pieces of Wool Dress Goods, Prunellas, Eollennes,
Crepe de Paris, etc. goods that sold from $1.00 to
$3.50 In this sale at a CGl
yard DZJC
150 pieces of Fancy Mohairs, Jamestown Goods, Serses,
Henriettas, etc. Bold at 49c, 59c and 75c "If
yard will close at a yard DC
100 pieces of evening shades Voiles, Eollennes, Crepes,
Mohairs, etc. regular prices 75c to $2.00
yard all will go Monday only
White Goods, India Linons
Art Linens and Dress Goods
12V&C fine sheer India
Llnonx
lJie fine sheer India
Linons
39c
20c flue sheer India
Linons.
25o fine sheer India
Llnous ,
60c flue Art Linen,
yard wide
$1 Wnlstlng Linens,
yard wide
7oc Dress Linens,
yard wide. . . . . ,
COe White Mercerized
Walstlngs
..75c
10c
U'.c
15c
29c
59c
39c
39c
25c
10c
50c Sofa Pillows, 19c
49c White Mercerized
WulstiUKS
39c White Mercerized CI
Wnistiuiis UK
25e White Mercerized
Wulstlngs
$1.50 Embroidered Q Q n
Chiffon WulslliifiS ..J OK
$2.50 Embroidesed 7 C
Chiffon Waistlugs. I. O
Long Cloths, Nainsooks
Dimities, etc. nt less than any
house in the west
LINING DEPARTMENT.
Closing nut all odds and ends
of linings at, yard, C
25c, 15c, 10c and OK
We have Just received a great lot of
Fancy Tapestry Sora Pillow Slips
made from the accumulation of rem
nants of one of the largest tapestry
curtain manufacturers tn America
any of them good 50c
value special Monday UK
Main Wash Goods Department
Our new Spring Wash Goods are now arriving and will be placed on sale as fast as received.
William Anderson's Scotch Ginghams,
made in Glasgow best val- C
ues in the world for yard. . . DC
New Point d'Esprlt our
$1.00 grade
New Tulle Netties
61)0 quality
75c
39c
New French Organdies
00c quality
New Toile du
Nords
New Shadow Checks
Silk
39c
125c
25c
WASH GOODS IX DOMESTIC ROOM
60,000 yards of Ginghams, Percales,
Flannelettes, Madras, White Goods
and other walsting goods worth up
to 29c yard, at yard, 10c, 1
7&c, 5c, 3c and
50c Neckwear, 10c
Monday we place on sale a great as
sortment of ladles' fancy Stock Co
liirs. Turnovers, Tabs. Jet. and sever
other styles of new Neckwear, wort'
from 20c to 50c. all at one ffip
price, for Oils sale, choice IXJK
25c Windsor Ties, 10f
each aJK
20c Turnover Collars, i(e
each lMK
25c Collar and Cuff Sets, fflr
each Uw
50c Collar and Cuff Sets, A
each IUC
50c Tab Collars, 10c
50c Stock Collars, each 10c
50c Jet Collars, each 10c
Greatest Neckwear bargains of the entire
season.
January Clearing Sale of La dies9 Coats, Suits, Furs
and Waists
VISIT OUR MAMMOTH SC
AND IOC DEPT. NOW OPEN
IN BASEMENT ANNEX.
MANY NEW COATS FOR MONDAY'S
SELLING.
Women's $30.00 Coats 15 QO
Women's $25.00 Coats J2
Women's $20.00 Coats JQ QQ
Women's $15.00 Coats V 50
All clean, up-to-date stock, in new
est designs, all the best materials and
colors.
$15.00 Sults--In long Chesterfield or
short Jacket effects, great assort
ment of plain and fancy mixed ma
terials, worth resnlarly . fQ
$15.00; sale price O.JG
Elegant Tailor Suits Regular $25.00,
$30.00 and $35.00 values; in this
sale, at $17.50, $15.00 J2 50
From 8:30 Till 10 A. M. Ladles' and
Misses' Coats, in sizes 32, 34, 36,
worth up to $8.00 CA
choice ! JU
Now in Full Blast. All Our Winter
Coats and Suits Now at Halt Price.
Handsome Opera Couts at Half.
150.00 Coats- 25.00
$7.:U- 37.50
$100 and $125 Coats JJQ QQ
SURPRISING FIR BARGAINS.
Our immense Btock of High Grade
Furs all go at sacrifice prices.
Women's $15.00 Astrakhan Capes
in this sale 7 50
Women's $35.00 Astrakhan Capes
Skinner satin lined 17 50
Women's Near Seal Coats Best qual
ity, $70.00 values QQ
$10U Hudson Bay Beaver Capes Go
ant.t.hl!.8.a:!7 50.00
From O Till 11 A. M. Women's $5.00
Silk Underskirts, in black OO
and colors special, at ....& J O
60 Fur Scarfs that sold at $2.00 and
$2.60 special Monday J)8c
75 Fur Scarfs fccludlng novelties in
mink, opossum, Russian coney, etc.,
worth up to $6.00 Mou.- QO
day, at iJO
Handsome Brook Mink Scarfs 4 3 in.
long, In 10 distinct styles, including
cape effects, good values at 1 ftO
$8.00 special Monday.... J, JO
Muffs of All Kinds Worth double
our sale prices I QQ
$3.00, $2.08 and V.JO
THREE SKIRT SPECIALS.
Misses' $3.00 Walking Skirts Q
Women's Skirts, worth up to f QO
$5.00 special, at V.JO
Handsome Dresa Sklrta In cheviots.
broadcloths, Panamas, etc., all new
est styles, including the circular
skirt garments that sold
up to $10.00 at
From 9:30 Till 10:30 A. M Women's
$2.00 Long Kimonos, on special sale
Monday at,
choice ,
4.98
98c
Blanket and Flannel Dept.
The Greatest Clearing Salt of Blankets, Flannels, Comforts, Etc, ever known
in the west. Variety unequaled, quality unexcelled, prices lower than elsewhere.
All our regular 1V. and 12Hc Outing Flan
ni n olnsA out. 714c tier vard.
All our reg-ular lBc Cotton Eiderdown, to
closo out, 7Vys per yam.
All our regular 15o Arnold a 36-lnch Flan'
Great Money Saving Grocery Sale
Reducing Our Mock A
22 pounds Pure Cane Granulated
Sugar for $1.00
7 pounds Fancy Hand Picked Navy
Beans 25c
8 pounds Breakfast Rolled Oat
meal 25c
10 pounds best Granulated Corn
meal 15c
48-pound sacks Fancy High Patent
Minnesota Flour $1.25
2-pound can Fancy Sweet Sugar
Corn 5c
2-pound can Fancy Wax or String
Beans OHo
2- pound can Fancy Lima Beans.. BHc
3- pound can Fancy Table Syrup. .7Hc
1-pound package Mincemeat. 5c
Jello, Jellycon or Advo Jell, per pack
age 7 He
011 Sardines, per can 2 Ho
1 dozen packages best Parlor
Matches 12 Mo
The best Soda or Oyster Crackers,
per pound 6c
The best Crisp Ginger Snaps, per
pound 5c
ter Inventory. .
16-ounce can Condensed Cream.. 7 Mo
Xcelo . Breakfast Food, per pack
age 7 Mo
1-pcund Alaska Salmon Oc
Tea and Coffee Sale.
Choice Tea Sif tings, per pound. . . .10c
Fancy Sundried Japan Tea, per
pound 2."c
Fancy B. F. Japan Tea, per pound. 20c
English Breakfast, Oolong or Gun
powder Tea, per pound 35c
Choice Santos Coffee, per pound . . 15c
Fancy Maracaibo Blend, per
pound 17 Uo
Porto Rico Blend a fine drink per
pound 25c
' Oranges. Oranges.
We have Just received our first car for
this season of Fancy Highland Navel
Oranges. These are very fine,
sweet. Juicy, and rich flavor Mon
day on sale at, per y C
dozen CDC
Honey. Honey. noney.
New Colorado White Clover Honey,
per rack 12 He
Seven Hundred Articles of Mission Furniture
In great demand at this season of the year have just come from the factory. Every one
useful; every one solid oak, and all weathered finish.
Dm m IfflFlat SIat Tabourette, . sUe 12x12,
Weathered KfeW
oak stool,
12x12, 7 inch
high price
25c
Fine Oak Jardiniere Stand (cut not
shown), well braced, size 12x12,
height 19 Inches n C
price JG
Hoosler Kitchen Cabinets now on hand
for your inspection. Call and see
these.
During January wo
r.re making very low
prices on all furniture
height 16 4 inches, and put to
gether in the strongest and Fft .
best manner price.. D)G
These are all useful articles, all
well made and well finished.
Sqmare Post Tabourette, heavy and
strong, size 12x12, height its ft
Inches, strong and firm---price
,
Weathered Oak Bookstand, 4 shelves.
size 12x12, height 30 Inches, solid
and well made, can also be used as
a fern stand 1 C
price V.tO
65c
A
nelette. to clone out, Bo per ynrd.
ANNUAL CLEARING HALE OP BED
DLNO. 2(10 pairs of cotton sampln rted Blankets,
10-4 and 11-4, worth up to $1.60, to close
out, 69c per pair.
Our regular $2.50 10-4 white wool Bed
Blankets, to oloHe out. at $!.' per pair.
Our refT'ilar $4.60 11-4 white wool Bed
Blankets at $3.25 pair.
Our regular $ti.50 11-4 all wool gray Bed
Blankets at $4.25 pair.
Full clie Spread, Marseilles pattern, reg
ular 79c, Monday 59c each.
Kull size extra heavy Frlnfje Bed
Spreads, regnilar $1.25. Monday 9Sp each.
Full size colored, pink and roue, heavy
knotted fringe, regular $2.26, Monday $1.3
each.
fur regular $2.f Honie-Mad Bed Com
forters, extra heavy and large, to oloe
out, $1.49 each.
Hardware, Stoves and Housefurnishings
CLEARANCE SALE OF ODDS AND ENDS.
Boys' and Girls'
Sleds
All EOc and 60c Sleds
for
All 85c, 95c and $1 Sleds
for
200 6-quart White and Blue
eled Ware regular 55c
for
6-pint Nickel Drip Coffee
Pots
600 Hendryx Bird Cages,
up from
800 extra heavy Gray Granite
Milk Pans. . . .
5 00 No. 28 Granite Wash
Basins
200 Galvanized Foot
Tuba
...19c
..35c
..65c
Enam-
26c
69c
49c
12c
..9c
29c
Enterprise Food
Choppers
100 4-quart Granite Coffee
Pots
200 sets White Metal Knives
and Forks
20O AIRTIGHT OAK HEATERS.
11-lnch
Oaks....
15-lnch
Oaks
13-lnch
Oaks
17-inch
Oaks
Special cut prices on all Base Burn
ers and large Heaters.
25 Styles of the Best Steel Ranges
Made, all standard fac- C A
tory brands, up from. . . . HCD 3
..79c
..33c
59c
ERS.
4.49
7.49
5.95
8.95
Some Interesting Timely and Tersely Told Tales Both Grim and Gay
the steps came Mrs. Casey, a comely Irish da money, an' let out de Job fur 60 cent, a that brand new hat of mine! Won't soma the secret service man when he told this the wagon was backed up to the church lenged by U Yuen The ' "hb
A Brlek Trad la Jenaom.
HE3 wife of a Philadelphia clergy- woman, clutching something tightly In her week to de kid wot's out dere sweepln" de one stop It?'
man recently sold a box of waste hand. Coming up to Mrs. D., who was crossln' now. He gits his pay reg'lar, an' There was something in the professor's
paper to a ragman, says Success seated on the piazza, she held out her hand, don't have to do no head work huntin' voice that appealed to a dapper looking
Magailne. In the box were a lot and in the palm lay a bronze medal which
of manuscript sermons of her was given to her son for services rendered
husband's. A month or so thereafter the at Manila,
ragman again came around, and asked if "If ye please, will ye read what it say a 7"
the woman had any more sermons to sell. she asked, and Mrs. P. read:
"I have some waste paper." said she, "but "To the Man Behind the Gun."
why should you particularly want scr- "That's him," exclaimed Mrs. Casey,
tnons?" "That's him; that's my son. He got there
"Well, mum, you see I did so well with 'or safety; and could ye blame him, now?"
them that I got here a month ago. I got Chicago Inter Ocean,
lck up In Altoona, and a preacher there
boarded me and my horse for a couple of A Youna Lieutenant of Finance.
Jobs." Youth's Companion.
On a, Cash Baala.
An eminent physician In P had cured
a little child of a dangerous Illness. The
grateful mother turned her steps towards
the house of her son's savior.
"Doctor," she said, "there are some things
which cannot be repaid. I really don't
know how to express my gratitude. I
thought you would, perhaps, be so kind
stranger, who made a lunge at the head
gear, but he could do no better than put
little story.
Married the Wrong: Man.
A strange case of matrimonial fraud has
lately occurred at Vienna. A woman of
door and the couple loaded Into It.
Zanger was Miss Iena Penzel.
A Veteran Commoner.
The retirement of Henry Labouchere
his foot through It. Consequently the the lower middle clays married a man whom from British politics will make the smoking
brim was the only part recognizable after
the fatality.
"Well, you certainly have put your foot
In it," shouted Mr. McOill.
"Beg pardon, what did you say?" asked
the dude.
"I say you've put your foot In It."
"By Jove, say not so, old chap."
she took to be a Herr Weiss, her nance, room of the House of Commons duller,
returning after a year's absence in America He delighted In his many curious and in
to make her his wife. In less than a month terestlng adventures. Of his running for
he robbed her of her savings and then sud- Windsor In 1864 he tells as follow: "On
denly disappeared. . the day of the election everything turned
A month later she received a letter from on about half a dozen votes. I remeniber
America regretting that the writer had one Tory went out to fish in a punt, and
been too 111 to return at the time agreed, the boatman who accompanied him was
"Say not so yourself," growled the pro- jjUt stating that he waa about to sail, and induced to kqep him well out in the middle
weeks for that box of sermons, because I For several days the policeman on the as t0 accept this purse, embroidered by my ffcSBor. y0u surelv have fixed mv hat un .... 1 i.iu hi. .11 fulfill nf th river until thn nnllinir hour had ferior Demon
on 1 any money, tunce men. he s got a oeat nau ODserveu a smau Doy wno spent " "
himself of a long tale of woe to the China
man, concluding with a petition for some
thing to eat.
"You like fllsh?" suavely insinuated tha
Chinese.
"Yes!" eagerly assented the tramp.
"Call Fllday," responded Lee, with an
Imperturbable smile, aa he closed tha door.
Harper's Weekly.
Pointed Paragraphs
It's the limited express for the man who
stutters.
There is often a superior air about an In-
great reputation In those parts as a the most of his time lounging near a down
preacher. I'll give 10 cents a pound tor all town street crossing, and seemed to have
you have." Success Magazine. nothing to do. One morning he accosted him.
i "Tommy," he said, "or whatever your
Tha Man Behind the Gnn. name is, you do entirely too much loafing
Boon after the close of the Spanish war 'round bare. Hadn't you better be at
Admiral Schley visited Bangor, Me. Gen- homer
ral Joseph Smith tendered him a recep- "I ain't loafln'," Indignantly replied the
tlon, to which many of the townspeople boy. "I got a reg'lar Job here."
were Invited. The people gathered from "You've got a Job? What Is It?"
far and near, and the streets were filled "De guy wot owns dls store pays me a
"Madam," replied the doctor, coldly,
"medicine is no trivial affair, and our visits
arc to be rewarded only In money. Small
presents serve to sustain friendships, but
they do not sustain our families."
"But, doctor," said the lady, alarmed
and wounded, "speak tell me the tee."
"Two hundred dollars, madam."
The lady opened the embroidered purse,
took out Ave bank notes of $100 each, gave
two to the doctor, put the remaining three
all right. his nromlse by leading her to the altar, passed. Another aged and decrepit Tory When the ladder isn't down In tha world
"I am awfully sorry-weally." confessed The letter was signed "Herrmann Weiss." was kept In his house by having cabs It is up against It.
the dude. "Lt me 'ave It mended." Tne poor woman was thrown Into a sad run at him whenever he tried to issue jt la often difficult for the young father
"Oh, no;" said the ex-reglster, with sar- condition of perplexity and apprehension from his door. Finally the liberals won the to hold his own.
casm. -tne Drlro Is not worth a crown anil ner worst fears were realized when, day. On this the Tories petitioned. The
on her correspondent's arrival, she recog- committee decided that there had been no
nlzed that she had been Imposed upon by bribery, but unseated my colleague and
a callous lmposter whose resemblance to myself because they thought that we had
the real slmon pure was marvellously hired an excessive number of committee
now."
"A crown? I should say it Is! Why, the
bloomln' thing is worth a sovereign, at
least!" Washington Post.
photograph
Where LJfe Is Long,
striking. It subsequently transpired that
the genuine Herrmann Weiss had while in
Senator Tillman and a colleague were America foregathered with his double, who
with those who wished to get a glimpse of dollar a week for keepln' dls crossln' swept ack ,,n tn Pure; bowed coldly, and took dou,sln. queWion ot th, .Hubrlous- had ascertained sufficient of the farmer's
tha admiral. clean.
Mrs. Pearsons lives directly opposite Qen- "But I never see you doing any work,"
ral Smith's house, and tha piazza and the said the policeman.
teps of her house were crowded, when up "Course not," returned the boy. "I take
Great Fortunes of America as Compared with Old Times
mHE great fortunes tha thave sprung Uonalres, according to best Information. Is
up so amazingly In this country over 2.000, while the number of millionaires
durinff racent decaies. In t h ln th. TTnlt fit.i.. i- !... inn l.i
opinion of many serious thinkers, the total number in the world. There Is
today constitute a menace to our one family alone, at the head of which
national well being, says Cleveland Moffett stands the richest and most powerful man
In writing of "The shameful misuse of In the world, John D. Rockefeller, and the
Wealth." in Success Mugazlne. Without wealth of this family Is estimated at a
these great fortunes there would be no thousand million dollars, a sum so huge
reign of luxury ln America, no flaunting ot that the human mind quite fails to grasp it.
(easts and follies, no rlok of extravagance; a sura so huge that If at the birth of Christ
with them we may expect all the evils that Mr. Rockefeller had begun making a dollar
have In previous civilizations attended upon a minute and had let all these dollars ac-
her departure. Upplncott's Magazine.
rooms.
A Postponed Dinner.
A Californian relates the following aa
ness of various secUons of the country, history and prospects to enable him to Uiuatrmtln. the aptness evinced by a Chi
A Judicious Reply.
The young woman Journalist was enter
taining a half dozen Wellesley undergradu
ates at tea. It was an expensive tea, served
"Well," said Mr. Tillman, "if the health- carry out with success his base scheme
fulness of a region Is indicated by the of deception and heartless robbery,
mere longevity of Its Inhabitants, then I a
nese servant ln his employ for an easy as-
A woman Is satisfied with
only when It flatters her.
One can be burled In oblivion without
the aid of an undertaker.
Why are bald headed men so sensitive
about the hair they do not possess?
Yes, Alonzo, a screen Is sometimes used
to hide things, but that isn't necessarily
why they screen a load of coaL
Occasionally you hear of a man who was
think that Ashevllle. Tt. C, must hava
the palm. As an Illustration of how long-
In an expensive apartment. Plainly, the lived the people are thereabouts, we Cfcro-
young woman Journalist was doing well. llnlans are fond of telling this story:
"Yes, I am doing well," she admitted. "I "A visitor from the north asked an old
write fashions now. But when I was a gentleman where he was born and how
high-class Journalist, interviewing celebrl- old he was. The old chap replied: 'I was
tics on my own hook, I couldn't afford to born here ln Ashevllle. and am 70 years
give teas. old.,' 'Oh!' exclaimed the Yankee, 'as you
"These celebrities! If they would only appear to be as hale and hearty as a man
talk! You visit them expecting to extract of 40, I've no doubt you'll live to a ripe
a $26 story. You come away with a quarter old age. How old was your father when
enormous riches. And many of these evils.
aa we have already seen, are actually
with us.
It Is admitted that we are the richest peo
ple In the world today the richest people
the world has ever seen. The vaunted
wealth of Croesus is estimated at cnly
$8,000,000. but there are seventy American
state that average $35,000.00) each. As show
ing the rapid growth of Individual fortunes
tn this country there is Interest In a Use
cumulate day and night for all these cen
turies, he would not yet. ln 19"M. have
amassed a thousand million dollars. And
If Mr. Rockefeller should tnday turn this
wealth Into gold coin and take it out of the
country, say Into Canada, he would carry
across the border three times as much gold
as would then remain In the Vnlted States.
Nor would he carry It himself, for the weight
of It would be l.'M tons. And if he loaded
one or nothing.
"Once I sought out Richard Watson
Gilder In order to get from htm five or six
columns of good stuff on 'Young Women
ln Literature.' A fetching subject, eh?
"But, alas, Mr. Gilder wasn't in a talka
tive mood. When I suggested this glorious
topic to him, when I opened fire with the
question, 'What Is the chief requisite for a
young woman entering the literary mid 7
he replied: 'Postage stamps.' "Buffalo
Times.
he dlc-dr
" 'Father dead!' said the old man, look
ing surprised. Father Isn't dead! He's
upstairs putting grandfather to bed.' "
Success Magazine.
Hot Cuffs tor Tws.
A XJvely Catch.
Mrs. S. And so you are leaving us.
Bridget And what are you going to do? door of the Callfornian's house one Tues
Bridget Please, mum, I'm going to get day afternoon, when he waa promptly chaX
married."
Mrs. 8. Dear met Isn't that rather sud-
den? Who is the happy man?
Bridget Do you remember, mum, me
askln' you about four weeka ago to go to
the funeral of a friend? Well, I do be goln'
to marry the corpse's husband. Sure, be
told me then I wus the life of the party.
Harper's Weekly.
slmllatlon of American methods of dealing 'truck dumb with astonishment, but noth
ing like that ever happens to a woman.
' There are more Havana cigars sold In
the United States annually than the fac
tories In that city could turn out in tea
years. Chicago Newa
with the "hobo" type that Is not less com
mon In California than ln the east.
A hungry tramp knocked at the kitchen
Girl Embraces Real Live Bear and Gushes Over the Fact
damages for Injuries reoelved la a railroad
accident, was placed on the witness stand
One of the two secret service men who and required to bare her neck and shoul-
were on guard at the Roosevelt residence ders ln order that the Jury might see the
ln Oyster Bay last summer has btn tell- extent of her Injuriea. First blushing fu-
lng stories of their experience there, rlously and then realizing that It had to
l suauy tne two sat under a big tree all be done. Miss Rescher, with becoming mod
BAR HUGGING Is an amusement short distance when, about a hundred feet
which few people, particularly away, we saw a large cinnamon bear brows
young women, would care to in- lng among the bushes. Knowing that all
dulge In, and It Is seldom one the animals in the park are more or less
has the chance to embrace a real tame, we approached the beast. I held up
live Bruin'' In his native haunts, even If my hand, and the bear, thinking that I had
he or she had the nerve and the Incllna- something for him to eat, stood on his
iinn tn irv it Th. nnnnriimiiv hniiivu. hind feet and reached up. but finding that
a pretty lass ot JS. plaintiff In a suit for came not lonc ag( to MlM Bele Well a he had been deceived, shook his head
fBl
Pretty Bhonlders Fetch th Jnry.
Miss Stella Rescher of Jeffersonvtlle, Ind.,
pretty little Texas lass, who visited In Se- angrily and walked away. My young 00m-
attle recently, and she startled W. D. Cam- panlon then ran back to the wagon, and re-
eron, who happened to be with her at the turned with a few cookies. Again we ap-
tlme, by giving a full-grown cinnamon bear preached the bear, and Miss Wells held one
ln Yellowstone park a good squeeze around of the cookies In her hand. The bear re-
the neck. The bear, however, much to tho peated the same performance be bad gone
1,.., r.t fiu. urAii'. Mn,.ni.n hih n..t throurh with me. but this time he found
r-igut. only taking refuge on the veranda esty. removed the garments necessary In reclprocate the c&XKty although he seemed something. Miss Wells gradually drew
ln case of heavy rain, one very stormy order that the Jurors might examine. They
Pat Ills Foot In It.
J. Nota McGlil, ex-register of wills for the anJ chilly night they had sought shelter did. They nodded wisely to each other and
It on the packs of porters, each man bear- District of Coluiftula. and now professor of there. Apparently every member of tha ten minutes after retiring brought In a
of rich men-printed ln 1SS5 according to lng his own weight In solid gold (say 153 patent law at Oeorgetown university, lost household was in bed and so the officers verdict for $6,0u0.
which New York City at that time boasted pounds). It would require 23.030 men to move a hat, a point to a Joke, and a goodly were somewhat startled on seeing side S
cnly twenty-eight millionaires. And a It. And if they walked ten feet apart the amount of temper recently. This Is how door Tn. Mrs. Roosevelt peeped out and Paraded la a Brewery Wsios.
pamphlet published some years earlier says line of them would reich forty-four miles it came to pass: called them over, saying: "I've bsen wor- Mr and Mrs John Zanger of Igansport.
... , . ..r.l,.... .u.u v,..jr mna woum occupy nrteen hours In passing Mr. McUlll was walking from the patent rl,1 aooui you men In this awful night." Jnd.. newly married, were paraded through
a given point. None of which takes any office up O street to his own office, when "ttla Mrs. Roosevelt, "and thought that the streets ln a big brewery wagon lighted
account of the dally Interest on this for- he came face to face with a nor" wester. some hot coffee would do you good. , Come with-four red lanterns and filled with shout- follows; merely dropped down on all fours again and
tune, which Interest, if paid In gold, would Mr. McGUl is not of the excitable kind, in and drink It. It was very late to call lng friends. They were driven to the Pan- "Our party bad stopped for the noon hour sauntered off Into the brush. In all ray ex-
require the strength of seven men to carry but when that nor'wester struck blm he the cook, so I made It myself. I hope handle depot, where they left for Union luncheon, and while th meal was being perlenc I have never seen a more reckless
It. for It would weigh l.Ono pounds. Such lost his bead or rather bis hat. , that It Is ail right' "It seemed to me to City to spend their honeymoon. After the prepared Miss Wells and I started out to or daring and even dangerous action by a
are th riches of a single family. "Hey, there, " cried tba ex-register, "stop b the beat coffe 1 aVer taated." remarked ceremony at th German Lutheran church pick a few berrlea. W had goo but a young womanfieattle Pual-IuUillgeaosa,
tea estate valued at a million or more, the
richest being that of Stephen Glrard, which
reached $7,000,000. In contrast to which ln
lsV3 there were over SuO millionaires In
Philadelphia.
As to New York City, the number of mil-
to enjoy it. oaca her nana while tne bear was reaching
Miss Wells Is the 15-year-old daughter of for It. until the animal's head was over
a wealthy cotton dealer of Austin, Tex. She her shoulder, and then, while he was eat-
Is a beauty of the true southern type, 1m- '"8 he cookie, she reached around his
bued with the daring spirit and. nerve that nk with her other arm and hugged blm
so often are found in the western plains tightly. My heart seemed to stop beating,
girl, and Is large for her age. Mr. Cameron, but I dared not yell, for th animal would
who came to this city a few days ago. de- be startled and attack the girl. When he
scribed Miss Wells' daring escapade aa ,l,a nnisneq eating tne cookie, however, he